Introdcution

Summary Information

The NYC dataset has over 48895 observations recording over 16 features for each house that hosted Airbnb guests in 2019. Among the features are room type, price, host name, and so on. According to the dataset, 22326 private rooms, 25409 Entire homes/apts, and 1160 shared rooms were hosted in 2019. The most expensive of them being 10000 and the least expensive being 0. Note that some airbnb housese can claim to have zero dollars in price per night because they don’t charge per night, rather by week or month. The most popular neighbourhood is Williamsburg, while the most popular neighbourhood group is Manhattan. Lastly, the sum of all reviews posted to Airbnb in 2019 is 1138005.

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Charts

Chart Map

Purpose: This chart was intended to show the distribution of Airbnb-hosted houses in New York City to expand the user’s perspective of which neighbourhoods seem to dominate the real estate market (in terms of temperoray renting).

Insights: - It appeats that houses closer to a coast or near central NY appear to dominate the map. Perhaps because people are attracted to the view. - The popup labels reveal that house prices in densely populated Airbnb markets, on average, are much higher compared to regions with fewer Airbnb houses for guests.

Donut Pie Chart

Purpose: This chart is intended to show the portion of types of different rooms on Airbnb in New York City. A pie chart is very useful in this situation because it gives people a intuative way to understand the proportion of different room types.